Waitress fired after posting controversial pastor receipt on Reddit

There are two lessons to be learned from this week’s stories on a pastor who complained on a receipt about tipping a server “more than God.” One – don’t complain about things via restaurant receipt, thus providing stilted servers written evidence of your stinginess. Two – don’t post such complaints online if you’re a server and you want to keep your job.

St. Louis pastor Alois Bell, disagreed with an 18 percent gratuity charge added to her Applebee’s bill, and let it be known on her receipt, writing “I give God 10% why do you get 18″ and scratching out the gratuity charge, replacing it with a zero, TheSmokingGun.com reports.

The server showed the receipt to another server, named Chelsea Welch, who took a photo of it and posted the photo on Reddit.com, sparking nationwide fury and attempts to identify the pastor in question, The Consumerist reports. Welch was later fired from her job, she told The Consumerist, after she says Bell called her restaurant and complained about the incident.

In an interview with The Smoking Gun, Bell apologized for the note, calling it a “lapse in judgment that has been blown out of proportion.”